How to check if the page is reloaded in a Selenium test

(Selenium for Beginners)

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Let’s say that you automated the following test case for the Vancouver Public Library site:

• Open home page
• Search for Java
• Check that results page is displayed
• Check that the total results count is positive
• Select the book filter on the left side
• Check that the new total results count is lower than the initial one

The code for the automated test is below (in C#):

using NUnit.Framework;
using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Remote;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Threading;
namespace NUnitTestProject1 
{
  public class Tests2
  {
     private IWebDriver driver;
     private WebDriverWait wait;
     private By searchBoxId = By.Id(“edit-search”);
     private By searchButtonId = By.Id(“edit-submit”);
     private By countXpath = 
            By.XPath(“//span[@data-key = ‘pagination-text’]”);
     private By bookFilterXpath =…